pengalaman saya, distro Gentoo yang pernah saya install dengan cara
seperti ini pada tahun 2004 lalu. Instalasi Gentoo memberikan pilihan
yang disebut dengan stage dan dibagi 3 bagian. Stage pertama adalah
instalasi lewat internet yang diawali dengan persiapan sistem (semisal
partisi) kemudian bootstraping system langsung lewat internet, lalu
update Portage dan install base sistem.
Hanya saja di Gentoo, yang kita download source code dan compile sendiri
sehingga membutuhkan waktu cukup banyak. Saya install Gentoo Server
nondesktop membutuhkan waktu dua hari (download dan kompilasi). Tidak
terbayang berapa lama jika saya juga install Xserver dan desktop.
Keunggulan sistem ini adalah semua metode kompilasi dan optimized sistem
bisa kita lakukan terserah kita; mau kompilasi sistem khusus untuk spek
komputer kita saja atau universal yang bisa digunakan untuk komputer
lain, dan beberapa setting-setting lain. Satu lagi keunggulannya,
dokumentasi terbilang cukup lengkap, terstruktur rapi, dilengkapi dengan
code-code yang harus kita ketik di console pada setiap tahap, serta
contoh konfigurasi. Bahkan tersedia dokumentasi install berbahasa
Indonesia. Dokumentasi untuk keperluan-keperluan khusus, trik-trik, dan
troubleshooting juga cukup lengkap.
Ada beberapa setting dan fitur yang disediakan untuk user yang tidak
ingin membuang waktu untuk kompilasi; bisa menggunakan binary paket atau
juga DistCC. Untuk user yang ingin kompilasi sendiri juga bisa melakukan
download source code yang diperlukan saja dengan menggunakan deltup.
Misalnya kita sudah memiliki kernel source 2.6.11 dan ingin install
kernel 2.6.12, deltup hanya mendownload patch file saja dan ini sangat
membantu bagi user dengan koneksi terbatas.
Stage 3 dari Instalasi Gentoo untuk user tidak terkoneksi. Dan ini
tentunya tidak up-to-date sesuai dengan versi yang tersedia di media
lokal.
Dan Gentoo saya rasa lemah dalam bagian metode instalasi berbasis GUI.
Pengalaman instalasi Gentoo terbaru (versi 2006.0) dengan menggunakan
GUI dan mencoba noninternet (Stage 3), rasanya agak membingungkan dan
butuh konsentrasi lebih.
Untuk instalasi Stage 1 (via net), banyak image boot yang tersedia
selain asli milik Gentoo. Salah satu yang saya suka gunakan adalah image
buatan salah seorang hacker (lupa namanya) yang sudah enable reiser4 dan
beberapa fitur eksperimental utama lainnya.
Untuk Gentoo, banyak tersedia kernel-kernel hack sesuai dengan
kebutuhan. Banyak yang sudah saya coba, dan yang paling saya suka
gunakan adalah kernel Nitro dan Love-Sources. Terakhir menggunakan nitro
karena sangat stabil dan menunjang kinerja sistem.
Ingin mencoba? coba kunjungi www.gentoo.org dan jangan lupa
http://forums.gentoo.org. Di http://aman.kinana.or.id juga ada beberapa
posting tentang pengalaman saya berselancar bersama Gentoo.
Wassalam
Aman
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 02:05 +0200, Ambon wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/26/AR2006042600200.html?referrer=email
>
> Install Linux Over the Internet
> You don't have to rely on CDs or DVDs to install Linux; you can run a Linux installation routine directly over the Internet.
>
> Scott Spanbauer
> PC World
> Wednesday, April 26, 2006; 3:10 AM
>
>
> One of the best things about Linux is that its dozens of varied incarnations are generally available as free downloads on the Internet. To install the latest version of Novell's OpenSUSE Linux, Red Hat's Fedora Core 5, or Ubuntu Linux, all you have to do is download the CD or DVD image files from the distribution's Web site or via BitTorrent (you can you can download the software from us), burn them, and boot your PC with the first disc.
>
> But if your Internet connection is swift, and if you're only planning a one-time installation on a single computer, you can skip the disc image downloading and burning, and instead install Linux directly from an Internet server.
>
> The benefits of a server- or network-based installation are manifold. For one, it lets you install Linux wherever you are without having to schlep discs around. It also reduces the overall size of the download--instead of downloading all five CDs (or one DVD) worth of install files, you download only those you need for the installation, using as much or as little of it as you need.
>
> This method also lets you install Linux on devices that lack a CD or DVD drive (like ultraslim notebooks), so you could boot from a USB thumb drive or other bootable USB device. Best of all, it allows you to install any available version of the distribution, including the very latest one, without having to download and burn an additional set of discs.
>
> Though numerous Linux distributions support network installations, this month I provides specific pointers for two of the most popular distributions: OpenSUSE 10.0 and Fedora Core 5 . The procedure for each is nearly identical to a disc-based installation--only the source of the files changes.
>
> Did I say you don't have to download and burn a disc? I may have oversimplified things. To install Linux, you must first boot Linux, so you'll need a boot disc or other bootable device. If you are truly determined (or forced) to install Linux on your PC without any sort of removable boot disc or device, read Marc Herbert's rather thorough-looking how-to about this option.
>
> The rest of us will need to boot the PC using a boot disc or device. The good news is that the .iso disc-image file for a boot disc is quite small--only 6.67MB in the case of Fedora Core 5 , and 64MB for OpenSUSE (significantly larger, but still a lot smaller than a full install CD, which runs about 650MB). These downloads are for PCs based on 32-bit Intel CPUs, but 64-bit versions are also available.
>
> To create the boot disc, download the .iso file to your PC and burn it using your CD-burning program's option to create a disc from an image file. But before you do, make sure your PC supports booting from a CD-ROM; older computers may not.
>
> USB thumb drives are handier and more durable than recordable CD media, which could make them preferable for bootstrapping a Linux installation. The bad news is that OpenSUSE doesn't appear to offer an easy way to boot from a USB drive. But Fedora Core does: Download the file diskboot.img from Fedora's Web site. At a Linux shell prompt, enter the command , where drive is your USB drive's device name. You may need to change your PC's BIOS settings to allow booting from USB devices; and as with CDs, older computers may not support this option.
>
> After booting your PC from the boot disc or device, you'll have to provide the Linux distribution's installation program with all the information it needs to get the files, including how it should connect to the Internet, what type of server it will be dealing with, and, finally, the location of the server.
>
> After a few preliminaries, the installer will ask you to pick a network interface--you'll probably see only one, unless you've installed additional network adapters, such as a Wi-Fi client, in your PC. You'll then have to specify how the installer will receive an IP address for your own network; most often you'll select DHCP to receive an address automatically from a router or other server.
>
> Next, you'll need to tell the installer whether you want to retrieve your Linux files from an ftp or an http server. From a user perspective, it makes little difference which one you choose, but you do have to choose one. Both Fedora Core and OpenSUSE are available via either ftp or http.
>
> Finally, tell the installer where to look for the distribution's installation files. Pick a site near you from the list of Fedora Core 5 or OpenSUSE mirror sites. For either distribution, you'll need to specify the appropriate version for your CPU: x86 and i386 are for 32-bit processors; x86_64 is for 64-bit processors.
>
> Once the download starts, you'll probably want to find something else to do, since the process will take a bit longer than a CD-based install. I usually start one of these at bedtime and return in the morning to finish up. But the upside is that I don't have to swap, burn, store, or discard any discs.
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